Spirit of the Constitution is being eroded

1:29 PM,
Jun. 10, 2013

Written by

Len Cruz, Asheville

In retrospect, the Patriot Act, patterned after the Hart Commission's report that was issued several years earlier, now seems designed to systematically dismantle and disregard constitutional protections under circumstances of national threat. The astounding thing is that while our government officials decry the oppressive tactics of nations like Syria that capriciously shut off access to cellphones and the Internet, they are conducting constant surveillance. In these days of unprecedented technological advance, the lack of oversight, not the surveillance itself, is what ...